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Make Mead Like a Viking : Traditional Techniques for Brewing Natural, Wild-Fermented, Honey-Based Wines and Beers by Jereme Zimmerman

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A complete guide to using the best ingredients and minimal equipment to create fun and flavorful brews

Ancient societies brewed flavorful and healing meads, ales, and wines for millennia using only intuition, storytelling, and knowledge passed down through generations no fancy, expensive equipment or degrees in chemistry needed.

A complete guide to using the best ingredients and minimal equipment to create fun and flavorful brews

Ancient societies brewed flavorful and healing meads, ales, and wines for millennia using only intuition, storytelling, and knowledge passed down through generations no fancy, expensive equipment or degrees in chemistry needed. In Make Mead Like a Viking, homesteader, fermentation enthusiast, and self-described Appalachian Yeti Viking Jereme Zimmerman summons the bryggjemann of the ancient Norse to demonstrate how homebrewing mead arguably the world s oldest fermented alcoholic beverage can be not only uncomplicated but fun.

The importance of local and unpasteurized honey for both flavor and health benefits; Why modern homebrewing practices, materials, and chemicals work but aren t necessary; How to grow and harvest herbs and collect wild botanicals for use in healing, nutritious, and magical meads, beers, and wines; Hops recent monopoly as a primary brewing ingredient and how to use botanicals other than hops for flavoring and preserving mead, ancient ales, and gruits; The rituals, mysticism, and communion with nature that were integral components of ancient brewing and can be for modern homebrewers, as well; Recommendations for starting a mead circle to share your wild meads with other brewers as part of the growing mead-movement subculture; and more

Whether you ve been intimidated by modern homebrewing s cost or seeming complexity in the past and its focus on the use of unnatural chemicals or are boldly looking to expand your current brewing and fermentation practices, Zimmerman s welcoming style and spirit will usher you into exciting new territory. Grounded in history and mythology, but like Odin s ever-seeking eye focusing continually on the future of self-sufficient food culture, Make Mead Like a Viking is a practical and entertaining guide for the ages.